Setting some New Goals

It's almost June 1 and it is the time of year, where I examine my yearly goals and admit to my successes and failures.

I always look at those I need to improve on first - my walking and my eating.

And I am re focusing on these two.  My daughters, the youngest two, and my youngest son are home for the summer SO... We have set up an obstacle exercise course in the back yard - and my son has taken on the Motivator Coach Role (he is fit).  So I have my Circuit training for  the summer and I have recommitted to my 15 miles to walk a week - with my dog, those two things are easy.  But I need to do the strength training for my BONES so I must get back to the weights at the gym. 

We have dumped the food we do not need to eat, filled the fridge with fruits veggies proteins and I think my Summer come be healthy - If I make the right choices.  Getting back to what I am comfortable, which is the simply filling plan for Weight Watchers, Inc.  I really should attend meetings, because I have so many friends who are leaders, they are double the inspiration - I will see about it - I think it will be beneficial to me.

Going in the Right Direction:
My reading goals have been over and above what I could have wished for.  My Facebook time has been less and less (excellent), I have been able to take 10 hours a week to cross stitch, and I have made every attempt to spend more time with all my grandkids.  I have started purging my cross stitch stuff to send to a Womens Center, and my clothes and other things to do the good will.  I am afraid of something thinking I am a hoarder... (well not so bad, but could be).

Positive Encouragement The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose we have applied the best of ourselves. - Vince Lombardi

Random Rambles

All Kinds of Kind.  Miranda Lambert - Country

I love Miranda Lambert, but that is not what my ramble is about today.  This song, All Kinds Of Kind is very Miranda - and the lyrics are what they are - but when I hear this song, it makes me think.  Think about acceptance of others - and how important it is for us to STOP JUDGING each other, because we are different.

Am I without judgment - heck no, do I wish I was - of course, but I can't help but judge serial killers, or child abusers, or Cruel People, or people who stand behind their religion to bully others. 

And America - come on now - why did we all come here?  We came here for the Freedoms that were promised.  The Freedom to be me - to worship who and how I want to - even if it is not your God, or your way, the Freedom to think independently.  And with the privilege of these Freedoms, I had the responsibility and the duty to allow others theirs, within a framework of non violence toward others, and giving all others the respect that I would want.

I have spent a weekend reading and watching.

Reading the most rudest, evil and cruel things being posted on forums and social media where people hide behind technology to bully, harass or judge others.  I have deleted myself from several "Facebook Groups" and "Bulletin Boards".

I have watched Americans do rude and cruel things - now in my mind things were cruel, maybe a better way is to ask  - How to we treat the cashiers, bank tellers, servers who are trying to do the best job ever?  How do we disrespect the environment by litter, or leaving the parking lots scattered with shopping carts?  How do we deal with those who do not believe in my God, or follow my religion? How do we treat those who need to be able to make choices, I may not agree with?

I am proud to be an American - I vote every election - it is a privilege to vote - I worship a God that is just and all forgiving, and he loves me regardless of who I love, or how I love - as long as I love and not hate.  I wave the flag and I stand for the National Anthem, and I pledge to this Flag - because I believe this is the best place to be.

Home  Dierks Bentley.  This is the place we all call Home.

A Finish.... So Happy

True Love II

I am so happy - I have had so little time to stitch this month, but I decided I was going to finish something and SO HAPPY I DID. 

I will be working next week on Fancy Dancing - I am babysitting this weekend, and I am at a spot where I can stitch big areas of all the same color for the background and this will be great for me not to lose my place.  Also the HAED SAL for this week is America, so I can join in there with this one.

Also I will be working on the above Non HAED. Sue Hillis Designs. I am dividing my time each week (or at least trying to, between my HAED's and my nons).  As this also has big blocks of the same color, it will work out perfect while watching those little ones. 

Memorial Day Monday - I always think about my dad, WWII vet at this time.  He was the perfect dad, and was stolen away from me at a time when I needed him the most.... 

Baseball tonight - local team, Triple A.  with a good friend, who doesn't undertand a thing about Baseball.  But it will be a great time.  I am so in a Baseball frame of mind.

Also Game of Thrones - finished Book 1 of Ice and Fire and I am totally hooked on this story.  I have read so many great books this year.  I stopped myself from downloading Book 2 for a week, because while I was reading book 1 I DID NOTHING ELSE....  So I have just started book 2 and Clash of Kings - I so so love my Nook...  For sure now, I am going to watch the HBO Season 1 as I have read the book...  There truely is SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE TIME.  I have more books on my list to read, then I have charts on my DO NEXT cross stitch list.. 

Friday Cross Stitch Update

This is Forbidden Doorway as of the end of the week.  I am happy with this progress, and I really love working on this.  I have saved her face for the very end.  Not sure why.  I am becoming less rigid in my Cross stitch "rotations".  I believe I will be working on this lady a little every week, as I can see progress quickly and it's good for my soul.

This up coming week I am working on QS Tomboy this is with the HAED SAL - it is a SWIP.  SLOW WORK IN PROGRESS, is what I think it means.  I just know I have been working on her since 2009, and I WANT to finish her.  I love her - mostly because she is named Tomboy and I grew up as ONE OF THOSE.  In fact just beginning of this week, was driving by a school at end of the school day.  There were a group of kids walking about 7 little boys and 1 little girl.  Must have been about 8-10.  WOW that was so me.  With my older brother and friends.  Remembering Steve (taken way too soon).  So now you know why I am working on her.

And this week too I will be working on a NON HAED.  This is True Love II  - Couchman Creations, Karen Couchman.  I have been working on this project since I bet 2007. I am not joking.  I added a new page to my blog - it is my NON HAED WIPS and it has a picture of what this will look like when completed.  As you can see, I am so very close, and I WANT to finish it. 



Weekly Positive Encouragement from Reggie Leach "Success is not the result of spontaneoius combustion.  You must set yourself on fire....."  Where's that match?

May 6 CrossStitch Update

So this week I will be working on Forbidden Doorway.  The Freebie HAED SAL, and I am really happy because I love to work on this one.  This is the before.

I have no After of Tresures because I was so disappointed in my lack of time spent on it - it was no change.

So I wondered, what is up with that - why was it so difficult for me to stitch this past week, on a chart I LOVE - its a black and white, I have the perfect place for it, it is a Mermaid......  So what was my problem.  Simple it is the 25 ct fabric.  I am sure of it - I can't see it and I have to use a magnifer and I have not found a comfortable way to stitch on it.  What to do????  Well - it will work out I know, because I really love it too much to leave it UNFINISHED.  So I am on the search for a much better magnifier thing.  And I may just go to the eye drs and see if she can hook me up with better glasses, well just needlework glasses....  or something. 

In the meantime, after reading other blogs, I have started missing my NON HAED design wips.  So I am going to change some things up.  Not sure just how - but I am going to start working on more variety of projects.  I know if I keep the beads out - which I hate, and the fractional stitches - which I hate I think I will be just fine.  I do not mind the back stitching.  And for the designs I really love with beads, half the time you can leave the beads out and they look just fine to me.  And seriously, aren't I the one that matters here.

Mowed the lawn today - it was like a jungle out there...  but glad that is over.

Love Sunday nights.  Remind me of being a kid and family times, but now I am not watching Disney, or Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom - but I am watching a Fairy Tale....  Once Upon a Time.  So addicted that show, must be because after Mermaids, I think I love witches most.

I will not eat Chocolate at Work Today

So its 11:00am my time.  And the cravings have begun, my co workers bag of Mini Chocolate Herseys candy bars is so very close, I can smell the chocolate I swear.  Now if I could only have one that would be okay, but I can't, and I know it.  And I know once I start those things, I can't stop.  My goodness, I love Herseys candy so much I actually have a Tattoo of two Herseys Kisses, yes that is correct, and why do I have two?  Because never in this life time have I ever had one of anything, not one kid, not one husband, not one job.... Well I have one dog now, but two cats........ 

But today I WILL NOT eat Chocolate at work, and I can't run outside and stand on the street corner, and say that it doesn't count, because I am not in the building....

That is a promise I am making too myself.

Happy May 1 -- Let us all hope up here in Central New York, the snow is over, as last Friday we were still getting it.